Centre for Science and Environment - Doha CoP 18http://cseindia.org/taxonomy/term/21046/0
enCoP18, Doha: An assessment A Gateway that leads nowherehttp://cseindia.org/content/cop18-doha-assessment-a-gateway-leads-nowhere
<p>Sunita Narain on the Doha outcome</p>
<p>It was a nail-biting end that came in a no-ball game. For the past 20 years, the world has been haggling about who will cut greenhouse gas emissions and how much. In the same 20 years, the science of climate change has become more certain. The world is beginning to witness what the future will look like &ndash; more extreme events like the typhoon Bopha and the tropical storm Sandy are expected to cripple life and livelihoods across the world. In fact, as the leader of the Philippine delegation emotionally pointed out, the world is running out of time -- his ocean nation has seen 17 killer typhoons in the past year.</p>
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<p>Dec 5, 2012</p>
<p>Thank you chair,</p>
<p>We need to see and ambitious results under the Kyoto Protocol(KP) as well as LCA track to inspire increased global efforts in future. Currently, there is a crisis of confidence. Despite Cancun pledges and KP commitments, we are yet to reach there. Not that we do not have a framework for it, it exists. Unfortunately, we have not implemented it. The central problem is not therefore of enhancing ambition at the global level, but of implementing commitments as per agreed principles. Availability of technologies and financial resources iskey to these commitments as far as developing countries are concerned. </p>
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<p><em><strong>By:</strong>&nbsp;Arnab Pratim Dutta<br />
</em><em><strong>Date:</strong>&nbsp;Dec 1, 2012</em></p>
<p><em>Least developed countries oppose developing countries</em></p>
<p>Developing countries on Friday managed to bury a proposal of the Least Developing Countries (LDCs) on agriculture. The proposal said that studies need to be carried out to ascertain the role of agriculture in global warming. This proposal, placed before a scientific advisory body of the United Nations Frame Work Convention of Climate Change (UNFCCC) in the ongoing annual climate change talks in Doha, not only showed the deep divisions that run within the developing countries collectively known as the G77+China but was also seen as an aberration to the stand of the developing world that agriculture is only a subject for adaptation and not mitigation.</p>
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<p><em><strong>By:</strong> Indrajit Bose<br />
<strong>Date:</strong> Nov 29, 2012</em></p>
<p><em>US says no to equitable division of atmospheric space</em></p>
<p>The US made it clear it is not on the same page on equity as the developing nations. On day 3 of the ongoing Conference of Parties on climate change (COP18) in Doha, the deputy chief climate envoy of the US, Jonathan Pershing, told NGOs in an informal briefing session that it would be hard for him to go back to the Congress and sell the idea of equity as espoused by the developing countries.</p>
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<p><strong><em>By: </em></strong><em>Indrajit Bose</em><br />
<strong><em>Date: </em></strong><em>Nov 27, 2012</em></p>
<p><em>No market benefits for developed countries that are not part of Kyoto Protocol, developing countries demand</em></p>
<p>Two issues dominated negotiations under the <a href="http://unfccc.int/kyoto_protocol/items/2830.php" target="_blank">Kyoto Protocol</a> track or ad hoc working group on Kyoto Protocol&nbsp; (AWG-KP) on the second day of CoP 18 meeting in Doha, Qatar. One, on the second commitment period of Kyoto Protocol (KP 2), and two, the ambition levels with respect to emissions reduction targets of developed countries.</p>
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